ABSTRACT Secondary school adolescents in Delta State are increasingly engaging in violence and health-risk behaviours which negatively affect their cognitive performance, emotions, choices and overall quality of life. This trend warranted the integration of life-Skills into the secondary school curriculum with a view to changing the in-school adolescents‘ negative behaviours. Previous studies have shown non implementation of life-Skills training included in the school curriculum in Delta S...
ABSTRACT Public examination records have shown that students record low achievement in basic science. This has been attributed to over dependence on the conventional method of talk and chalk. Scholars have thus recommended the use of other instructional strategies that could help students learn collaboratively and acquire problem solving skills. Two of such strategies are Crossword-Picture Puzzle and Enhanced Explicit Teaching strategies. There is paucity of research on their effects on stud...
ABSTRACT Research on library deviance in Nigeria has largely relied on librarians’ accounts, which often portray students as “deviants” and libraries as “victims”. However, a holistic account should incorporate narratives from both students and librarians in the analysis of deviant behaviors in library utilization. Some common trends of deviance and the implication on library utility in selected universities were discovered through observations and interviews. The study reveals a g...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the influence of participation in after school sports programme on academic performance of Nkonya Senior High School students in the Biakonye District of the Volta Region of Ghana. The population of the study was made up of General Arts students of Nkonya Senior High School. The study was a descriptive research design. Participants immediate grade scores were compared with their immediate post sports activities in some selected subjects. Data analysis was done...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the impact of leadership styles of heads on academic performance of students in three leading secondary schools in Ho. The method used for the research was the descriptive survey. This method was used because it may reveal the actual perception of students and teachers about their head’s leadership style. The population was the heads, teachers and students of the schools involved in the study. The three heads, sixty teachers and one hundred and fif...
ABSTRACT The research sought to obtain evidence of the factors that were responsible for the academic performance of pupils in the Asawasi Sub – Metro such as family background, pupils’ characteristics, teachers’ influence and the school environmental factors.The research was conducted using observation, interviews and questionnaires. A sample size of 1640 respondents representing a heterogeneous target population was drawn from the Asawasi Sub-Metro. The study revealed that persistent...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of premarital counselling on adjustment among Christian couples in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A case study was used as the design for the study. Convenience sampling procedure was used to select the three churches from the metropolis. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data for the study. Using Tabacknik & Fidell (1996) procedure for sample size determination, a sample size of 300 Christian couples were selected ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the guidance services in the Colleges of Education in the Western Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 250 students and 63 staff members were selected for the study through purposive, stratified and simple random sampling procedures. Data were collected using a questionnaire adapted from a questionnaire designed by Adzakpa (2016). Data collected were analysed descriptively and inferentially ac...
ABSTRACT Identification of factors which affect students' progression, performance and completion is instrumental in the planning and development of programme to ensure best outcomes for both the institution and the student. This notwitstanding, it appears there is some literature gap on this subject matter in Ghana in relation to the academic performance of nursing training college students. It is not yet known why some nursing students fail to attain the standards expected of them. This st...
ABSTRACT This study employed the descriptive survey to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of HIV counsellors in HIV counselling and testing in the Central Region of Ghana. In all, 140 HIV counsellors from the Central Region were sampled through the use of the purposive sampling procedure. The convenient sampling procedure was adopted to carry out the observation sections. Questionnaires and observation guide were used to collect the necessary data for the study. Descriptive statist...
Overview The chapter presents the background to the study, the statement of the problem. research questions and the purpose of the study. It further gives the significance of tile study and outlmes lhe delimitation and limitatIons o[ the study. It concludes With the ddiniuons often and the org.misallon of the study.
ABSTRACT Concerns raised by stakeholders in education over the continuous falling standards of education in the country has made the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service put in place such intervention as the performance Monitoring Test. The PMT is organized by the Inspectorate Division of the Ghana Education Service to measure the performance level of teachers and pupils in teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to find out whether respondents perceived the PMT a...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to obtain information on factors related to the consistently good performances of the University of Cape Coast (UCCs) cross country teams from 2002 – 2008. The population of the study was made up of students and staff of UCC while the accessible population was sports administrators, coaches, cross country athletes and sportsmen and women in other sporting disciplines. Two hundred and fifty respondents were purposely selected for the study. Sports admi...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the utilization of teaching space facilities at Our Lady of Apostle College of Education at Cape Coast in the 2006/2007 academic year. The study sought to provide information on time, space and global utilization rates in order to plan for short and long term admissions of student into the College. The research design adopted in the study was the case study. Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select samples...
ABSTRACT This study looks at the role of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in expanding access to and participation in Basic Education in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Basic school teachers, children in programme, officials of NGOs, District Education Office (DEO) Staff and Community members constituted the population. In all, the sample size of the study stood at two hundred and thirty (230). Data were gathered using questionnaires and interview guides. Analysis ...